January 30<\/p>\n
1649 \u2013 Charles I of England is executed for treason against England by order of the newly formed High Court of Justice, created by a special act of Parliament.<\/p>\n
1661 \u2013 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is exhumed and ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of Charles I<\/p>\n
1703 \u2013 The 47 r\u014dnin, former samurai of Asano Naganori, under the command of \u014cishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka who had been assaulted by Asano, who was then forced to commit suicide.<\/p>\n
1835 \u2013 The first assassination attempt against a President of the United States fails when both pistols of Richard Lawrence misfire due to humid conditions. President Jackson turns on the assassin and beats him with his cane until others, including Congressman Davy Crockett, come to his aid.<\/p>\n
1847 \u2013 Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor<\/em> is launched.<\/p>\n 1911 \u2013 The destroyer USS Terry<\/em> makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles off Havana, Cuba.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 Adolf Hitler takes office as the Chancellor of Germany.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese controlled Cabanatuan POW camp on Luzon, Philippines.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi, Indian by a Hindu nationalist<\/p>\n 1956 \u2013 Martin Luther King Jr.’s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 During the Tet lunar new year celebrations and cease fire, forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army launch an offensive against South Vietnam, the United States forces there, and their allies.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code,\u00a0 called “Elk Cloner”, which is\u00a0disguised as an Apple boot program.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed and staff evacuated due to a civil war starting<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Coalition air forces attack invading Iraqi forces in and around Khafji, Saudi Arabia, destroying hundreds of Iraqi Army tanks and armored vehicles, not to mention the crews.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 30 1649 \u2013 Charles I of England is executed for treason against England by order of the newly formed High Court of Justice, created by a special act of Parliament. 1661 \u2013 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is exhumed and ritually executed more than two years after his death, on … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89651,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64352\/revisions\/89651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}